Here comes the summer!
You are planning to travel this summer. In your everyday working life, it is the most fantastic and entrancing moment when you’re biting into your sandwich during lunchtime and searching for the tourist agents. You haven’t yet decided where to go. You may go for an ancient temple in the east, a gothic castle in the west, an emerald sea in the south or even a beautiful mountain in the north. In front of your computer monitor, you’ve found the right tourist agent, but suddenly the advertisement of the tourist agent is slightly changing. All the words from the advertisement make a billowy wave that starts spinning in your mind.
When we plan to go on summer holidays, to get out of a mundane life… dreaming of somewhere we have never been before. We are experiencing the instant moment of a mirage. From the moment that we expect, from the place that we want to go, it is significant to note that the moment is full of the unknown. To have an extraordinary experience, as Urry mentioned, we are looking for other "times" and "real lives" out of our ordinary experiences.[1] We will pick up the right tourist agent and organise ourselves to go on vacation. Our desire for travelling reflects well on leaflets of touristic destinations, flight ticket bookings, leisure sports programmes, hotel chain network. It becomes significantly easier to move one travel destination to another and the leisure industry has pursued networking and globalisation to facilitate this.
Dual Mirage Part 2: Tourists Dream begins from the moment when we’re dreaming of travelling somewhere. The place that we want to travel to is somewhat in-between idealised and practical space, artificial and natural space. The moment of longing for somewhere else other than here is as an instaneous escape and is done in search of other utopias. It is presented as future and nostalgia. It is a mirage. In Tourists Dream, it also explores the mirage generated at the point at which the service industry circulates, within the "transitional space". This is achieved by considering industries such as the tourism and hospitality industry, financial sector and real estate business, all of which are highly entangled with each other.
The importance of taking holidays for individuals today is evident as it spreads out in the part of society. In Tourists Dream, the curators Hyunjoo Byeon and Jungmin Kwon and the artists Oksun Kim, Uin Kim, Eunu Lee, Jeong-Hoo Lee, Sôm Lee, Gee Song, Hyemin Son and Juhee Youn map and narrate territory, displacement, and the tourist industry around global mobility.
[1] John Urry, The Tourist Gaze, (Sage publications second edition, London), 2002, 9p.
Part 2 Event
The event consists of the launch of the book Dual Mirage Part 2 as well as a video screening. The launching of the publication of Dual Mirage Part 2: Tourists Dream will be introduced by artist Hyemin Son. This is followed by the video screening Tourist’s Dream by invited curator Hyunjoo Byeon. Both the book and the video screening share and develop the idea of transitional movement in various aspects of global society, reinforcing the theme of tourists’ dream.
Dual Mirage Part 2
Tourists Dream
Publication launching
& Video screening
Friday 6 August 2010, 6-9pm
Project Space 2 at Rivington Place
Admission free
You are planning to travel this summer. In your everyday working life, it is the most fantastic and entrancing moment when you’re biting into your sandwich during lunchtime and searching for the tourist agents. You haven’t yet decided where to go. You may go for an ancient temple in the east, a gothic castle in the west, an emerald sea in the south or even a beautiful mountain in the north. In front of your computer monitor, you’ve found the right tourist agent, but suddenly the advertisement of the tourist agent is slightly changing. All the words from the advertisement make a billowy wave that starts spinning in your mind.
When we plan to go on summer holidays, to get out of a mundane life… dreaming of somewhere we have never been before. We are experiencing the instant moment of a mirage. From the moment that we expect, from the place that we want to go, it is significant to note that the moment is full of the unknown. To have an extraordinary experience, as Urry mentioned, we are looking for other "times" and "real lives" out of our ordinary experiences.[1] We will pick up the right tourist agent and organise ourselves to go on vacation. Our desire for travelling reflects well on leaflets of touristic destinations, flight ticket bookings, leisure sports programmes, hotel chain network. It becomes significantly easier to move one travel destination to another and the leisure industry has pursued networking and globalisation to facilitate this.
Dual Mirage Part 2: Tourists Dream begins from the moment when we’re dreaming of travelling somewhere. The place that we want to travel to is somewhat in-between idealised and practical space, artificial and natural space. The moment of longing for somewhere else other than here is as an instaneous escape and is done in search of other utopias. It is presented as future and nostalgia. It is a mirage. In Tourists Dream, it also explores the mirage generated at the point at which the service industry circulates, within the "transitional space". This is achieved by considering industries such as the tourism and hospitality industry, financial sector and real estate business, all of which are highly entangled with each other.
The importance of taking holidays for individuals today is evident as it spreads out in the part of society. In Tourists Dream, the curators Hyunjoo Byeon and Jungmin Kwon and the artists Oksun Kim, Uin Kim, Eunu Lee, Jeong-Hoo Lee, Sôm Lee, Gee Song, Hyemin Son and Juhee Youn map and narrate territory, displacement, and the tourist industry around global mobility.
[1] John Urry, The Tourist Gaze, (Sage publications second edition, London), 2002, 9p.
Part 2 Event
The event consists of the launch of the book Dual Mirage Part 2 as well as a video screening. The launching of the publication of Dual Mirage Part 2: Tourists Dream will be introduced by artist Hyemin Son. This is followed by the video screening Tourist’s Dream by invited curator Hyunjoo Byeon. Both the book and the video screening share and develop the idea of transitional movement in various aspects of global society, reinforcing the theme of tourists’ dream.
Dual Mirage Part 2
Tourists Dream
Publication launching
& Video screening
Friday 6 August 2010, 6-9pm
Project Space 2 at Rivington Place
Admission free
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